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A Dutch gable roof or gablet roof (in Britain) is a roof with a small gable at the top of a hip roof. The term Dutch gable is also used to mean a gable with parapets. Some sources refer to this as a gable-on-hip roof. [1] Dutch gable roof works of Padmanabhapuram Palace in India. A Dutch gable roof combines both the gable and the hip roof while ...
East Asian hip-and-gable roof; Mokoshi: A Japanese decorative pent roof; Pavilion roof : A low-pitched roof hipped equally on all sides and centered over a square or regular polygonal floor plan. [10] The sloping sides rise to a peak. For steep tower roof variants use Pyramid roof. Pyramid roof: A steep hip roof on a square building.
The Longxing Temple — built in 1052 and located at present-day Zhengding, Hebei Province, China — has a hip-and-gable xieshan-style roof with double eaves. [1]The East Asian hip-and-gable roof (Xiēshān (歇山) in Chinese, Paljakjibung (팔작지붕) in Korean and Irimoya (入母屋) in Japanese) also known as 'resting hill roof', consists of a hip roof that slopes down on all four sides ...
Kibitsu Shrine's honden-haiden complex. The main entrance (hidden) is on the right. Kibitsu-zukuri (吉備津造), kibi-zukuri (吉備造) or hiyoku irimoya-zukuri (入母屋造, paired wing hip-and-gable roof style) is a traditional Japanese Shinto architectural style characterized by four dormer gables, two per lateral side, on the roof of a very large honden (sanctuary). [1]
A hip roof on a varied plan, "h" denotes a hip, "v" denotes a valley. A hip roof is self-bracing, requiring less diagonal bracing than a gable roof. Hip roofs are thus much more resistant to wind damage than gable roofs. Hip roofs have no large, flat, or slab-sided ends to catch wind and are inherently much more stable than gable roofs.
A hip-and-gable roof at Shimogamo Shrine. Irimoya-zukuri (入母屋造, lit. hip and gable roof style) is a honden style having a hip [note 4]-and-gable [note 5] structure, that is, a gabled roof with one or two hips, and is used for example in Kitano Tenman-gū's honden. [29]
A Dutch gable or Flemish gable is a gable whose sides have a shape made up of one or more curves and which has a pediment at the top. The gable may be an entirely decorative projection above a flat section of roof line, or may be the termination of a roof, like a normal gable (the picture of Montacute House, right, shows both types).
Built c. 1906; one-story frame cottage, gable roofs; irregular plan 17 Castle Rock Hotel S 112 Upper Main Street Built c. 1895; two-story frame structure; longitudinal center hall; hipped roof; three-sided veranda; wood detailing derived from Victorian Italianate 18 Lodging House C 108 Upper Main Street Built 1910's; two-story frame lodging house